"I applied for college sitting on a curb at McDonald's using a laptop that wasn't mine," he remembered. "I arrived to college with my clothes in trash bags because I didn't know anything about airport fees."

He came back because he wants to change everything.

"My story should not be an exception. If anything, it should be an expectation," he said.

He already helps more than 250 kids through Puede Network, a five-year-old community non-profit he started while he was at Georgetown.